The tree of life in the Jewish scriptures was not original. A stylized tree was often the center of cultic scenes, with animals such as Ibex feeding on it, or people flanking it. A cylinder seal in the British Museum has a man and a woman flanking a tree, hands stretched toward it. Behind […]
The First Jewish Lie - The OT fabrication that the Israelites were slaves in Egypt.
How Persia Created Judaism: Persian and Jewish Religion – Dr Mike D. Magee
The Universal God The Influence of Exile Nehemiah and Ezra Judaism and Zoroastrianism Ahuramazda and Yehouah Eschatology Holy Spirits and Saviours Purity A Law for the Priests The traditional view is that Cyrus and successive Persian kings of the sixth and fifth centuries BC were being religiously liberal in allowing the Jews to reconstruct their […]
Men. Woman and Gods – Helen H. Gardener (Intro by Robert G. Ingersoll) pdf
The Abraham Myth – Peter J. Leithart
Evangelicals are debating the historicity of Adam, but they are too timid. It is time to reject fundamentalist distortions of the Abrahamic narrative just as decisively as we have abandoned literalistic readings of Genesis 1–3. Clinging to discredited biblical accounts of Abraham as if these events actually happened makes us look like Neanderthals, undermines the […]
The Sumerians – Samuel Noah Kramer – pdf
The Oldest Codes of Law in the World – C. H. W Johns – pdf
Light on the Old Testament from the Ancient Near East
Table of Contents Written during King’s first semester at Crozer Theological Seminary for James Bennett Pritchard’s class on the Old Testament, the topic and content of the essay reflect Pritchard’s interests in biblical studies, which were the strengths of the seminary’s faculty. Pritchard exposed his students to ancient Near Eastern texts, his edition of which […]